Baby Therapy for a Prozac World
Excerpts from my book “Baby Therapy for a Prozac World” explaining through shared experiences how the life of a family is enough therapy to keep someone sane and truly happy.
When you care for elderly in your home, it can be a life changing experience. Sitting in my office, I just heard my father talking to my deceased mother saying, “Hopefully, I won’t be long.” I feel tears well up in my eyes, but it is all he wants. I thought it would be a…
After a long month of rather aggravating series of events, driving in the car with some kids, I said, “Let’s just go to Burger King. I feel like eating garbage.” My son lovingly says, “You deserve it!” I looked over and said, “So, I deserve to eat garbage?” Hardest laugh all day. I needed that.
At our 20th anniversary dinner at the Brown Derby, I ordered a porterhouse, medium rare and a baked sweet potato. He ordered a porterhouse medium well with french fries. I say, “Oil and water. We are oil and water.” He says, “That works. Its an immulsion. It will stay together. You just have to keep…
Do you ever think about the reasons people speak in opposition to weapons? I ask myself that all the time. In the face of an ongoing war, the government expects us to sign our children up to serve but do not allowed them to learn about weapons. Maybe the insurgence of violence in our cities gets you…
There seems to be an influx in the chatter about suicide today. I don’t know if it is because talking about it in public stopped being taboo or if there is an increase in suicides from earlier years, but either way, people are affected. It is the people part that I am interested in talking…
My four-year-old son looks like a seven-year-old. He is almost 60 lbs. and is built like a brick outhouse as they used to say in the olden days. (I think I may be keeping it G for the blog but you get the drift). He is a big boy but sometimes still acts like a…
I thought all the whole drive back about how my children behave outside of our home in comparison to the way most other kids do. I would like to share some of the experiences we have had taking our young ones out in public. Now, mind you, our children are not perfect, we are not…
“…You might be asking yourself by now what all this has to do with Baby Therapy. All the things I listed lead one to become centered on themselves. This self-centeredness, or narcissistic tendency drives people, and they become slaves to themselves trying to please themselves at any cost. We live in an instant gratification world,…